Orbital Kingdom
#220088
A blue that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#220088
RGB
34, 0, 136
OKLCh
30.0% 0.187 276.1°
CIELAB (D50)
14.7, 44.0, -66.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.7; on black, Lc 0.0. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
14.75:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.42:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.75:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#220088
protanopia
#060688 · ΔE00 2.5
deuteranopia
#0f0f88 · ΔE00 3.1
tritanopia
#16167b · ΔE00 4.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDramatic Blue at ΔE00 1.52: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dramatic BlueΔE00 1.52 · #240093
- Blue BeetleΔE00 2.324 · #220099
- PrunelleΔE00 2.444 · #220878
- Yves Klein BlueΔE00 2.46 · #00008b
- Midnight in TokyoΔE00 2.461 · #000088
- Child of the NightΔE00 2.49 · #220077
- Full Swing IndigoΔE00 2.492 · #320094
- Nightly ExpeditionΔE00 2.498 · #221188
- Blue TrustΔE00 2.533 · #120a8f
- Navy BlueΔE00 2.767 · #000080
- Insomniac BlueΔE00 2.833 · #110077
- Violet HickeyΔE00 3.012 · #330099
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.